Architecture

Favelas, spontaneous architecture

Rio is not known as the safest city. There are favelas 4 situated on the hillside. Yet there is a lot we can learn from them.

The architectural design of favelas is not planned. For decades, people helped each other with constructing the unit next door (on a whim it seems!), resulting in a complex and intricate... See more

次世代に繋ぐ伝統建築 (先人の知恵を記憶する)

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According to Google this translates to “Traditional architecture that connects to the next generation, remembers the wisdom of our predecessors”